Children In Poverty More Likely To Have Smaller Brain Volume & Slower Growth, Linked To Cognitive & Behavioral Difficulties
Children living below the federal poverty level (FPL) are more likely to have cognitive and behavioral difficulties than their better-off peers due in part to differences in brain volume and growth. As preschoolers, children from low-income families had physical differences in brain scan results compared to other children. At age 3 to 5 years, the preschoolers from low-income families had smaller volumes of certain subcortical brain regions, including the hippocampus, caudate, putamen, and thalamus, and over the next 17 years, …
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